Video from four years ago, Pokimane gets emotional watching hater clip from 2018
via https://www.youtube.com/@PokimaneToo/posts
Since it's old, there's no reason to think you would want me to watch it or comment about it. But I am. "In a natural environment, there are more ways to fail."
5:39 "Can you imagine I listened to this person and just quit and went back to school here?"
When the speaker said at 3:02, "Remember that winner that was up here saying that she was in college to be an engineer but dropped out to play video games? Don't do that. She thinks it worked out for her but in six months, she will be trying to get back into that school."
That "don't do that", the recommendation to act a specific way, was not directed at you, but at everyone in the audience who had the option of doing what you did.
You said your channel grew the most from Fortnite. From SullyGnome, Fortnite streamers on Twitch average 8 viewers. Even when a streamer is successful, there are many cases where someone's views drop off by a lot, especially if they switch streaming platforms. One of my favorite streamers at the moment is the AoE2 streamer Hoang, who according to the comments on his videos is an engineer, meaning that streaming is not his primary income. His YouTube channel actually got hacked a few years ago and for months or years, he was not uploading anything and maybe not even playing games at all. The four videos he uploaded in the last 24 hours have less than 1000 views in total, which might be worth a couple USD in ad revenue.
My youngest sister is actually around the same age as you. In 2012, she had stopped going to high school. My oldest sister suggested to me that I call our youngest sister, thinking that I could be a good influence on her due to being male. So I did, and basically suggested to my youngest sister that she look into whether it was possible to take a test so she legally would not be forced to attend high school, and that she should start going to college as soon as possible, because people with a college education get paid more.
This was while I was living outside with no plans to go to college myself.
Acknowledgement that many 'successful' people dropped out of college to pursue their dreams, including founders of some of the largest companies in the world. But overall, it is no surprise to anyone that the average person with a college degree makes significantly more money than the average person without a degree.
A few years later, once I had moved back to live with my family (I still had no income), one of the songs that my youngest sister would play loud enough that I could hear it from my room — such as when she was taking a shower, with the door open so other people could use the bathroom — was Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie), by Clean Bandit. Lyrics, "She tells him your life, ain't [going to] be nothing like my life, you're [going to] go and have a good life, I'm [going to] do what I got to do".
The door of my youngest sister's room had a broken frame, which I assumed was from the police breaking in. It seems she either did not take my advice about getting a GED or whatever or it was not legally possible, because my sister was forced to go to a juvenile detention center due to not attending high school. (Another song she would listen to was Dollhouse by Melanie Martinez: "Everyone thinks we're perfect. Please don't let them look through the curtains.")
The point is that getting a college degree, as she did, was financially the most sensible choice for my youngest sister. (She is sad right now as she is not sure when or if she will have children, and she knew when going to college that it would have been harder if she had a baby.)
I don't know how streamer awards are determined or how often they go to someone who later stops streaming, but what the speaker in this video said was not directed at you and not intended to harm you, but to help other people.
Also, "Oh you think I'm not going to know how to play the next game? Watch me!"
Pokimane dies in WoW Hardcore (again)
Edit 10 Feb 2026, 03:06: fixed link to video, was to a cropped version.
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